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[RockyBalboa]

Originally Posted by creekster

Not even close. Look at the clips of xanadu that tooblue posted in the other thread. FOr that matter, the first movie to be based on covers of beatles songs (Sgt Peppers band starring the bee gees and peter frampton) was much more 'gay' and much more of a mistake. This one was done pretty well. It was not really meant to be a new plot of profound insights (IMO). It was really just a tribute to the era. They remade the songs, plugged a story around them and made also sorts of refernce to popular culture of the era. I thought bono was pretty good as the Ken Kesey figure and they replayed the famous refusal of Timothy Leary to refuse to meet with him. ANd there were all the refernces to the other beatlews songs; Prudence's freind RIta, Sadie the singer, who max calls sexy, prudence crawlign in through the bathroom window and so forth. I enjoyed it as a trip down memory lane and I enjoyed some of the musical arrangements. I really liked the dear prudence arrangement (esp. the chorus harmonies). I liked the visual of the troops carrying the statue of liberty through a miniature vietrnamese jungle, smashing all the trees all to the tune of "She's so Heavy." But, if you only saw 25 mintues, you missed most of this.

Okay so you're a homo. Thanks for clarifying.

[RC Vikings]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

That Sgt Pepper was very campy, but now a great piece of late 70s/early 80s rock cinema....Frampton, Aerosmith, Earth Wind and Fire, Bee Gees.

Not sure how Steve Martin fit into the grand scheme of things when the movie was being cast, but why not? George Burns is in it, so why not soon-to-be-Mormon Steve Martin?

Speaking of Frampton. Every time I see that Gieco commercial with him in it I just shake my head and think how sad. This guy was huge. Everybody had the "Frampton Comes Alive" album. I saw him live when he was touring for his "I'm in You" album which wasn't so great but still for about a year he got a ton of air play.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by creekster

I rented it. I liked it. Quite a bit. I think the directors style is either something you'll like or hate. It workeed for me. Joe bob says check it out

There were lots of cool beatles refernces to songs that weren't sung (like whenmax was swinging the silver hammer) and the voers were pretty good. I could have lost the eddy Izzard segment, to tell you the truth, but I thought the woman that turned "I wanna hold your hand" into a lesbian torch song was dynamite (and with that comment I suspect GOat might now want to see it).

One thing that wasn;t quite right was the hair. It was OK for the leads (except Max) but not so good on the othersn the movie.

I liked it. It's worth the rental.